US9150398B2 - Method and filling system for filling containers in a volume and/or quantity controlled manner - Google Patents

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US9150398B2
US9150398B2 US13/876,614 US201113876614A US9150398B2 US 9150398 B2 US9150398 B2 US 9150398B2 US 201113876614 A US201113876614 A US 201113876614A US 9150398 B2 US9150398 B2 US 9150398B2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/20—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/26—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled
    • B65B3/30—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by volumetric measurement
    • B65B3/32—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by volumetric measurement by pistons co-operating with measuring chambers
    • B65B3/326—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by volumetric measurement by pistons co-operating with measuring chambers for dosing several products to be mixed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/04—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus without applying pressure
    • B67C3/045—Apparatus specially adapted for filling bottles with hot liquids
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/20—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups
    • B67C3/208—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups specially adapted for adding small amounts of additional liquids, e.g. syrup

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  • the invention relates to quantity-controlled filling of a container with a filling material having a main component and an additional component.
  • An object of the invention is that of promoting promotes accurate volume-controlled and/or quantity-controlled filling of containers with products containing solids or solid constituents.
  • the filling of the containers with the product or filling material containing the solids or solid constituents is effected by introducing this filling material into the respective container in the form of at least one solid-free or substantially solid-free main component and separately therefrom with an additional component, which contains the solids or solid constituents but not at a concentration sufficient to suppress its flowability.
  • the metering or proportioning i.e. the determination of the fill volume of the additional component, is carried out indirectly by measuring the volume of main component that is displaced by the volume of the additional component introduced into either a storage space or a proportioning space. This measurement is carried out with a flow meter through which only the solid-free, or substantially solid-free, main component flows. This method avoids impairments or incorrect measurements due to solids or solid constituents when determining the volume of this additional component.
  • the flow meters are magnetically inductive flow meters.
  • Such flow meters are particularly inexpensive, robust and universally or almost universally usable for measuring the volumetric flow rate of a liquid product with sufficient electrical conductivity.
  • Such flow meters can also measure accumulated volume by integrating flow rate over time.
  • the invention a method for quantity-controlled filling of a container with a filling material having a main component and an additional component.
  • a method for quantity-controlled filling of a container with a filling material having a main component and an additional component includes, during a filling process, controlling introduction of the main component and the additional component into the container as it passes through a common filling-material section in a filling element by using a flow-metering device associated with the filling element so as to end the filling process when the main component and the additional component have been introduced according to a required fill volume.
  • Controlling introduction of the main component and the additional component comprises providing at least two magnetically inductive flow meters for use as a flow-metering device.
  • the magnetically inductive flow meters are spaced apart from one another relative to a direction of flow of the filling material.
  • the method further includes, at the beginning of a filling process, filling the filling-material section and a liquid space of the filling element with only the main component, the liquid space of the filling element being permanently connected to the filling-material section.
  • the method further includes, during the filling process, in at least one preceding process section, introducing the additional component into a space formed by the filling-material section.
  • the space is either a storage space or a proportioning space.
  • the method continues with using a flow meter through which only the main component flows to indirectly determine a volume of the additional component flowing into the space by measuring a volume of the main component displaced by the additional component from either the filling-material section or the space.
  • the method continues with the step of ending introduction of the additional component into the space when a volume of first component displaced by the second component from one of the filling-material section and the space, as measured with at least one flow meter, has reached a particular value, in a subsequent process step.
  • the method further includes introducing the main component into the filling-material section, through the filling element, and into the container, while concurrently entraining the additional component from the space, and measuring a volume of the main component flowing to the container using a flow meter through which only the main component flows.
  • downstream and upstream are determined based on the filling material's flow direction.
  • Other practices include measuring a volume of the main component using a flow meter upstream of the space.
  • Yet other practices include those in which a process sequence consisting of a preceding process step and the subsequent process step is carried out at most once during the filling process and those in which it is carried out at least twice during the filling process.
  • a process sequence consisting of a preceding process step and the subsequent process step is carried out at most twice during the filling process.
  • these practices are those that include, during the preceding process step, causing the main component to be displaced from the space by introducing the additional component into the container to be filled, and those that include, during the preceding process step, detecting that the filling element is closed, and causing the main component to be displaced from the space into an additional channel from which the main component is returned to a tank for the main component.
  • Additional practices also include feeding the main component into the filling-material section by controlled opening and closing of a first control valve, and feeding the additional component into the filling-material section by controlled opening and closing of a second control valve, and using a flow meter through which the main component flows downstream of the first control valve, measuring a volume of the main component in the subsequent process step.
  • Additional practices include feeding the main component into the filling-material section by controlled opening and closing of a first control valve, feeding the additional component into the filling-material section by controlled opening and closing of a second control valve, and using a flow meter through which the main component flows upstream of the first control valve, measuring a volume of the main component in the subsequent process step.
  • Yet other practices include, in a preceding process step, measuring a volume of the main component displaced from the filling-material section using a flow meter provided in the filling-material section downstream of the space in a direction of flow of the filling material.
  • Also among the practices of the invention are those that further include, in a preceding process step, measuring a volume of the main component displaced from the filling-material section using a flow meter provided in a liquid connection connecting a liquid channel of the filling element to the additional channel.
  • Additional practices include those that have a further step of closing the liquid connection during the subsequent process step.
  • Yet other practices include selecting the additional component to comprise a flowable base of solid constituents, and selecting the main component to be a liquid free of solid constituents.
  • the invention features an apparatus for filling containers.
  • Such an apparatus includes a filling system for quantity-controlled filling of containers with a filling material that is made of a main component and an additional component.
  • the filling system has a filling element that includes a liquid channel that forms a delivery opening for delivering the filling material into a container arranged at the filling element.
  • a liquid valve arranged in the liquid channel enables controlled opening and closing of the filling element.
  • the liquid valve is connected by a control valve device, which comprises at least two control valves, to a source for the main component and to a source for the additional component.
  • a filling-material section common to the main component and to the additional component forms a space that is either a storage space or a proportioning space for proportioning of the additional component.
  • a first flow meter measures volumetric flow of the filling material and generates a corresponding electrical measurement signal.
  • the first flow meter is arranged in either the filling-material section downstream of the space in a direction of flow of the filling material or in a controlled connection connecting the liquid channel of the filling element to either an auxiliary channel or an additional channel.
  • the controlled connection has a further control valve.
  • the apparatus further includes a second flow meter configured for measuring volumetric flow of the filling material and generating a corresponding electrical measurement signal.
  • the second flow meter is arranged in either a filling-material section downstream of the control valve device in the direction of flow of the filling material or in a connection that carries only the main component, and upstream of the control valve array in a direction of flow of the main component.
  • Embodiments include those in which the first and second flow meters comprise magnetically inductive flow meters.
  • the controlled connection extends between the liquid channel and an auxiliary channel when the first flow meter is arranged in the filling-material section.
  • the controlled connection between the liquid channel and the auxiliary channel comprises a part of a hot circulation system for the main component, and those in which it does not.
  • a line forms the filling-material section.
  • the line is either a product line or a pipeline between the control valve device and either the filling element or a filling material connector of the filling element.
  • the line comprises a product line having at least one region in which the product line extends vertically and those in which the line is a coil-shaped product line that forms the space.
  • Embodiments also include those that further comprise a rotary filling machine that has a rotor that rotates around the machine axis, and plural filling elements or at least one filling element.
  • the filling system is part of the rotary filling machine.
  • the filling-material section, the control valve arrangement connecting the filling-material section in a controlled manner to the source of the main component and to the source of the additional component, the first and second flow meter, and the additional, controllable connection are all provided discretely for each filling element.
  • the term “container” includes cans, bottles, tubes, pouches made of metal, glass and/or plastic, as well as other packaging containers suitable for filling liquid or viscous products for a pressurized filling or for unpressurized filling.
  • open-jet filling refers to a method in which the filling material flows to the container to be filled in an open filling jet, with the container not lying with its container mouth or container opening directly against the filling element but being spaced apart from the filling element or from the latter's filling material outlet, or delivery opening.
  • filling material includes liquid or flowable products that contain solids or solid constituents, e.g. particles and/or fibers, in a liquid or flowable base or matrix, for example fruit or vegetable juices having fruit or vegetable pieces/fibers.
  • only the main component is intended to include a mixture of the main component and an insignificant amount of any other component.
  • substantially means variations from an exact value by ⁇ 10%, preferably by ⁇ 5%, and/or variations in form of changes insignificant for the function.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show a simplified schematic diagram of a filling system for filling containers with a two-component liquid filling material in different phases or process steps of a filling process
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show similar depictions to FIGS. 1 and 2 with an extended embodiment of the inventive filling system.
  • a first filling system 1 which is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 , is used for filling containers, which are depicted, by way of example as, bottles 2 , with a liquid filling material that comprises a main component K 1 and an additional component K 2 .
  • the main component K 1 is liquid, i.e. it contains no or substantially no solids or solid constituents. Examples of a main component K 1 include fruit juice and vegetable juice.
  • the additional component K 2 while still liquid or flowable, contains a high concentration of solids or solid constituents. Examples of solid constituents include fruit or vegetable fibers, or fruit or vegetable constituents, including pulp.
  • the main component K 1 and the additional component K 2 are introduced one after the other into a bottle in a filling process in the manner described below in more detail.
  • the mixing of these components takes place substantially only when they are in respective bottle 2 .
  • the main component K 1 and the additional component K 2 are introduced into a bottle 2 such that, in at least one filling phase of the filling process, the required fill volume of the main component K 1 and the required fill volume of the additional component K 2 are introduced into the bottle 2 that is to be filled.
  • the first filling system 1 comprises a filling element 3 in whose housing 4 there is provided a liquid channel 5 that forms a delivery opening 6 on the underside of the housing 4 and that, at its upper region, facing away from this delivery opening 6 , is connected by a connector 7 to a lower end of a metering or product line 8 .
  • the filling element 3 is part of a rotary filling machine. It is provided for this purpose, together with a plurality of similar filling elements 3 , on a periphery of a rotor 9 that is rotationally driven about a vertical machine axis and on which there is provided, among other things, a tank 10 for the main component K 1 , a ring channel 11 for the additional component K 2 and a ring channel 12 . Each of these is common to all filling elements 3 of the filling machine.
  • the ring channel 12 forms part of a hot circulation for the main component K 1 by which not only the main component K 1 but also all of the functional elements of the first filling system 1 that carry that component are held at a high temperature necessary for hot sterile filling.
  • the tank 10 is partially filled in a level-controlled manner with the main component K 1 , thereby forming a liquid space 10 . 1 , which is occupied by the main component K 1 .
  • a gas space 10 . 2 which is filled, for example, with an inert gas.
  • the upper end of the product line 8 can be connected in a controlled manner by a control valve device or a first control valve 13 of that device to the liquid space 10 . 1 of the tank 10 via a feeder line 14 .
  • the upper end of the product line 8 can be connected in a controlled manner by a second control valve 15 of the control valve device to a ring channel 11 that carries the additional component K 2 .
  • the product line 8 and the first and second control valves 13 , 15 are provided independently for each filling element 3 of the filling machine.
  • a liquid valve 17 Inside the liquid channel 5 , between the connector 7 and the delivery opening 6 , is a liquid valve 17 .
  • An operating device 16 operates the liquid valve 17 .
  • the operating device 16 controls the volume and/or quantity-controlled delivery of the filling material into a bottle 2 , and the connection between the connector 7 and the delivery opening 6 .
  • the operating device 16 opens the liquid valve 17 at the beginning of a filling process and closes it at the end of the filling process in a controlled manner and as a function of electrical measurement signals of a first flow meter 18 and a second flow meter 19 .
  • the first and second flow meters 18 , 19 which can be magnetically inductive flow meters (MID's), each measure and/or capture the volumetric flow rate of the first component K 1 through the product line 8 .
  • the first and second flow meters 18 , 19 are disposed in the product line 8 spatially apart from each other such that the first flow meter 18 is located in an upper region of the product line 8 , downstream of the first and second control valves 13 , 15 , and the second flow meter 19 is located in a lower region of the product line 8 , upstream of the connector 7 .
  • MID's magnetically inductive flow meters
  • the product line 8 forms a product-line section 8 . 1 , which is depicted as a coil in FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • the product-line section 8 . 1 serves as a storage or proportioning space having a volume that is at least equal to the greatest fill volume of the additional component K 2 that is to be introduced into a bottle 2 in one process step of the filling process but less than the fill volume of the main component K 1 that is to be introduced into a bottle 2 during the filling process.
  • a liquid connection 21 having a third control valve 20 is further provided in the filling element 3 or in the housing 4 for connecting the liquid channel 5 to the ring channel 12 in a controlled manner and in such a way that even when the liquid valve 17 is closed, i.e. before starting and/or after finishing the filling process, and with the first and third control valves 13 , 20 open, a flow connection exists from the liquid space 10 . 1 , through the product line 8 , through the liquid channel 5 , through the open liquid connection 21 , into the ring channel 12 , and, from there, via a connection having a heating device, back to the tank 10 for hot circulation of the main component K 1 .
  • the bottle 2 is arranged with its bottle opening 2 . 1 below and at a distance away from the delivery opening 6 , with its bottle axis lying on the same axis as the a vertical filling element axis FA.
  • a container carrier 22 associated with each filling element 3 and provided on the rotor 9 suspends the bottle 2 by its mouth flange.
  • the operation of the first filling system 1 can be described as follows:
  • the liquid channel 5 , at least upstream of the liquid valve 17 , the connector 7 , and the product line 8 are completely filled with the filling material, and preferably only with the main component K 1 .
  • the third control valve 20 is also in closed and remains closed for the hot circulation until the end of the filling process.
  • the liquid valve 17 and the second control valve 15 open in a first or preceding process step to allow additional component K 2 to pass from the ring channel 11 into the product line 8 or the product-line section 8 . 1 .
  • This displaces part of the main component K 1 already present in the product line 8 through the opened liquid valve 17 and into the bottle 2 .
  • the volume of the main component K 1 that is displaced by the additional component K 2 from the product line 8 equals the volume of the additional component K 2 introduced into the product line 8 . This volume is measured by the second flow meter 19 , through which only the main component K 1 flows in this process step.
  • the second control valve 15 When the volume measured by the second flow meter 19 equals the required fill volume of the additional component K 2 to be introduced into the bottle 2 , the second control valve 15 is closed.
  • the second flow meter 19 therefore measures the partial volume of main component K 1 introduced into the bottle 2 in the preceding process step and, at the same time, the volume of the additional component K 2 that is introduced, i.e. proportioned, into the product line 8 or into the product-line section 8 . 1 .
  • the first control valve 13 opens so that then when the product line 8 , the product-line section 8 . 1 , the connector 7 and the liquid channel 5 are purged with the main component K 1 , the entire volume of the additional component K 2 initially present, i.e. proportioned, in the product line 8 , is introduced into the bottle 2 .
  • the product line 8 , the product-line section 8 . 1 , the connector 7 , and the liquid channel 5 are once again filled solely and completely with the main component K 1 .
  • the volume of the main component K 1 flowing into the bottle 2 is initially measured with the second flow meter 19 and then later with the first flow meter 18 . However, only the measurement signal from the particular flow meter 18 , 19 through which no additional component K 2 is currently flowing will actually be used for the quantity-based and/or volume-based control of the filling process.
  • the liquid valve 17 and the first control valve 13 are closed to end the filling process when the main component K 1 is also introduced into the bottle 2 with the required fill volume.
  • the third control valve 20 opens again for the next hot circulation while the liquid valve 17 closes.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show a second filling system 1 a that is similar to that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • the only essential difference between the two filling systems is that, in the filling system shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 , there are no flow meters provided in the product line indicated 8 a . Instead, for each filling element 3 of the second filling system 1 a , a first flow meter 18 a and a second flow meter 19 a are discretely arranged in the connecting line 14 and in the liquid connection 21 respectively.
  • the second filling system 1 a in FIGS. 3 and 4 is the same as the first filling system 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • those parts and/or components that are the same as corresponding parts in FIGS. 1 and 2 are marked with the same reference numbers.
  • the volume of the product line 8 a and of the connector 7 is greater than the volume of the additional component K 2 that is introduced into the bottle 2 in a process step, but less than the volume of the main component K 1 to be introduced into the bottle 2 .
  • the second control valve 15 opens so that the additional component K 2 passes from the ring channel 11 , through the second control valve 15 , and into the product line 8 .
  • the volume of displaced main component K 1 flowing through the liquid connection 21 equals the volume of the additional component K 2 flowing into the product line 8 a and is measured by a first flow meter 19 a .
  • first flow meter 19 a the volume measured by first flow meter 19 a equals the fill volume of the additional component K 2 that is to be introduced into bottle 2 .
  • the second control valve 15 and the third control valve 20 are closed.
  • the required fill volume of the additional component K 2 is now in product line 8 a and possibly also partially in the connector 7 .
  • the main component K 1 is introduced from the tank 10 and into the product line 8 a by opening the liquid valve 17 and the first control valve 13 .
  • the volume of the additional component K 2 therein present is initially introduced into the bottle 2 via the liquid connection comprising the product line 8 a , the connector 7 , and the liquid channel 5 .
  • the liquid connection is completely purged with the main component K 1 so that it is in turn filled solely with the main component K 1 .
  • the volume of the main component K 1 flowing to the product line 8 a from the tank 10 is measured by the first flow meter 18 a .
  • the volume of the liquid connection between the first control valve 13 and the delivery opening 6 which is determined by the design and hence known, i.e. taking into account the known volumes of the product line 8 a , the connector 7 , and the liquid channel 5 and possibly also taking into account further filling parameters, such as the temperature of the main component K 1 , the additional component K 2 , the closing of the liquid valve 17 by the operating device 16 , and hence the ending of the filling process, takes place when the main component K 1 is also introduced into the bottle 2 with the required fill volume.
  • the third control valve 20 opens again for the hot circulation of the main component K 1 while the first control valve 13 remains open.
  • the fill volume of the additional component K 2 that is to be introduced into the bottle 2 is also determined indirectly based on a measurement of volume of the main component K 1 that is displaced by the additional component K 2 and measured with the first and second flow meters 18 a , 19 a.
  • the liquid valve 17 is closed during the proportioning of the additional component K 2 , i.e. during the introduction of the additional component K 2 into the product channel 8 a .
  • the proportioning of the additional component K 2 can therefore already take place in the angular range of the rotary motion of rotor 9 between a container outlet and a container inlet of the filling machine. This angular region is often called “the lost angle” of the rotary motion of rotor 9 because it cannot be used to carry a bottle 2 .
  • the apparatus described herein also avoids incorrect measurements by flow meters caused by solid constituents in the filling material. This results in a high proportioning precision for the introduction of the main component K 1 and the additional component K 2 into bottles 2 and a high precision of the total fill volume introduced into each bottle 2 .
  • the present invention has been explained mainly by reference to filling elements 3 for hot filling of products.
  • the invention can be applied to filling elements that are not used for hot filling of products.
  • the measurement of the fill volume of the additional component K 2 is carried out indirectly by measuring the volume of the main component K 1 that is displaced by that component, such that the filling process can be controlled base solely on signals from that flow meter through which only the main component flows.

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